Student Groups

The Energy & Environment Professional Interest Council (EEPIC)

The Energy & Environment Professional Interest Council (EEPIC) brings together students at the John F. Kennedy School of Government who are interested in energy and environmental issues, particularly as they relate to public policy, advocacy, development, and business. EEPIC provides a forum for education, networking, and career services across the energy and environmental spectrum.

Education: EEPIC organizes presentations and seminars in which students, academics, and practitioners discuss their work on energy and environmental matters.
Networking: EEPIC fosters interaction between students with diverse backgrounds and interests, in part through extensive collaboration with other energy and environmental clubs in the Boston area.
Career Services: EEPIC works to connect students seeking careers in energy and environmental fields with potential employers in government, non-profit business, consulting, and other sectors.

Co-presidents: Anna Berkowitz, Alex Zheng

GSD Green Design

Founded in Fall 2005, Green Design offers a platform to discuss the ways in which the Graduate School of Design community can contribute in a meaningful way to the global "green" or sustainable design discussion using the unique methodologies practiced at the GSD. We host speakers, tours, exhibits, and eventsthat address issues of interest to multiple disciplines and schools at Harvard. We coordinate our efforts with those of other Harvard environmental groups such as the Harvard Environmental Society, the Environmental Action Committee, and the Green Campus Initiative. Recognizing the need for healthy and pleasant living and working environments, we encourage proper use, recycling, composting, and disposal of materials and food in Gund Hall and throughout Harvard.

Contact: Julia Africa, Ann Shi, Jonathan Sargent, or Amy Linne

The Harvard College Environmental Action Committee (EAC)

The Harvard College Environmental Action Committee seeks to help achieve a sustainable world and protect the environment for its human and non-human inhabitants. To this end, the EAC aims to raise the consciousness of Harvard's students to the effect of their own actions on the environment and to their status as stewards of this planet's resources. We advocate specific changes at the campus, local, national, and international levels. Furthermore, we serve as a forum for discussion and a source of information on environmental issues. Finally, we seek to enrich our members through fun and fulfilling experiences. General Board Meetings are Wednesdays from 9-10pm in the Quincy Spindell Room.

Contact: Co-Chairs Zach Arnold or Karen McKinnon

Harvard Business School Business & Environment Club (BEC)

The mission of the Business & Environment Club is to support future business leaders interested in the important relationship between business and the environment through exposure to careers, industries, organizations, leaders, and business models. Members of the Business & Environment Club are ideally positioned to identify, understand, and promote innovative environmental market opportunities and sustainability practices within the business community. The Business & Environment Club is the sole club on the HBS campus focused on the intersection of business and the environment.

Focus Areas:

Renewable Energy
Environmentally Friendly Consumer Products
Cradle to Cradle Manufacturing
Corporate Social Responsibility
Organic Foods

Contact: Paul Laszlo

Harvard Divinity School ECOdiv

ECOdiv exists to promote scholarly discourse around issues of religion and ecology, eco-theology, and environmental ethics. Its aim is to equip various faith communities with the resources to support the environmental movement, to encourage "ecological identity" among HDS students, to engage in environmental activism, and to organize environmental justice service projects.

Contact: Emma Crossen, Josh Griffin

The Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC)

A weekly journal club to facilitate discussion and understanding of the technical details of energy technology and energy economics. Each session, members will discuss a technical article regarding the science, technology, or economics of energy. HEJC's primary purpose is not to discuss policy issues, but rather it is to enable its members to develop the necessary technical background to better understand energy issues and policy. Each week, relevant papers are selected by a session moderator and circulated to the HEJC list. Participants should read the papers and come to the journal club prepared to discuss them. We cover a broad range of topics including:

1. Depletable resources: Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, etc.
2. Renewable resources: Geothermal, Wind, Solar, Hydro, Tidal, etc.
3. Applications: Clean Coal, CO2 Capture, Synthetic Fuels, Gasification, Fuel cells, Photovoltaic Cells, the Electric Grid, Energy Storage, etc.

Discussions are held every Monday from 11.45 AM to 1:00 PM in the Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room and are open to all Harvard or MIT students, post-docs, and faculty.

Contact: Kate Dennis

The Harvard Environmental Law Society

The Harvard Environmental Law Society (HELS) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization directed and staffed by students at Harvard Law School. HELS provides students with hands-on exposure to the numerous issues in law, policy, science and management that confront professionals in the field of environmental law. Members participate in conferences, host speakers, take trips and collaborate with groups throughout the University and the world in their effort to address environmental issues.

Resource Efficiency Program (REP)

The Resource Efficiency Program (REP) employs undergraduate students to be representatives (REP Reps) to their peers in their dorms and houses. These students educate their peers on environmental issues while advocating for pragmatic environmental efforts, such as changing incandescent light bulbs for florescent bulbs, double-sided printing, and reducing food waste. The program also works with the administration to make sustainable changes in their facilities and operations. The REP program is available to students at Harvard College, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School but welcomes outside volunteers to participate in REP activities and campaigns.

Contact: Zach Arnold, Rachel Mak, Kurt Tsuo, or Brandon Geller